Asylum seekers ‘living in fear’ as more UK anti-migrant protests planned

Tensions mount at Dunstable meeting as Hope Not Hate flags five far-right affiliated demonstrations planned this weekend

The anger was palpable as hundreds of Dunstable residents filed into the town's historic Priory church on Thursday evening.

There was a meeting to air concerns about the recent arrival of asylum seekers to a popular hotel across the road, but the subjects of the assembly were too terrified to attend and defend themselves.